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Shay can be pitch perfect

FC Halifax Town boss Chris Millington believes The Shay’s gruesome pitch cost his side a tilt at promotion last term.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
21 July 2024

By Chris Dunlavy

LIFE’S A PITCH: FC Halifax Town manager Chris Millington and, inset, striker Rob Harker in action at The Shay
PICTURE: Alamy

FC HALIFAX Town boss Chris Millington believes The Shay’s gruesome pitch cost his side a tilt at promotion last term.
A combination of heavy rain, poor drainage and dual use as a rugby venue had reduced the surface to a farmyard by the end of March.
Several home games were moved to neighbouring Accrington, and successive postponements left the Shaymen facing a gruelling fixture backlog.
That, says Millington, is why their play-off campaign ended i...

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